RE: Re: Comfort, UCM, Misterhouse & linux

["Shane Harrison" <shane.harrison@xxxxxxx>]

See inline:

> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Shaf" <shaf@s...> wrote:
> > Top be quite honest I have used MH and looked at the COM:X10/11
> Modules and
> > to be quiet honest don't like the whole MH setup.
>
> I know exactly what you mean.
> The X10 and CM11 worked straight away, but getting Comfort
> has been a right pain.  The MH web interface provides nice
> buttons for "Front Door" state, but if you click then it
> tries to write a new state to the "Front Door" ! All of my
> Comfort devices are input only so far. (Doors and PIRs)

I have attempted a similar thing but with a Linet based system rather
than Comfort.  I was also close to forming similar opinions on MH.
However now I am over the learning curve of MH (and it is rather steep
but getting shorter with some peoples documentation efforts) I really do
appreciate the framework it provides.  Essentially once you get
something integrated the rest of the framework provides a lot of added
benefit in terms of event processing and control.  However "out of the
box" that is not really very evident.  I personally found it worth
perserving and am glad I didn't start writing my own (unless you have
commercial interests at heart).

>
> Andy wrote:
> That's what I'm thinking right now.
> I've picked up perl very easily and could go down that
> route, but don't really want to, if I can help it.

The nice thing about open source is you benefit from everyones efforts -
this is one of the things the founder of MH (Bruce Winter) has stated
has been a real benefit of making it open source, even though it wasn't
the original driver.

As always just another opinion, but wanted to balance it up a bit if I
could - obviously there is always different strokes for different folks.

Cheers
Shane